No Decision Yet In Murder Trial

November 20, 1998

HARTFORD — Jurors deciding the fate of Lucius Richardson, charged in the stabbing death of a city taxi cab driver, told Judge Kevin McMahon Thursday that they were deadlocked on all four counts against the 18-year- old.

McMahon sent them back to deliberate further, but by 4:30 p.m. they had not reached a verdict. They'll return to Hartford Superior Court at 9 a.m. today to continue deliberating.

Richardson is charged with felony murder, first-degree robbery, attempt to commit first-degree robbery and conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery in the February 1996 killing of Colin L. Williams, 31. The state contends Richardson and Robin Ledbetter planned to rob a driver by calling a cab to a nonexistent address on Martin Street in Hartford.

Richardson, who was 16 at the time of the killing, lived on Martin Street. Ledbetter was 14 at the time of the crime. She will, however, be tried as an adult.